<i>Food and its preparation play an integral role in this novel of a young Italian woman struggling to find her own identity in a family of strong personalities and colorful figures.</i><br><br>Part autobiographical novel and part cookbook, Keeping House tells the story of a young Italian woman struggling to find self-definition and self-identity. Born into a prominent Jewish Italian family full of strong personalities and colorful figures, Clara narrates the humorous, dramatic, and often poignant events that inform her life. Intertwining recipes with her narrative, Clara uses food as markers for the cornerstones of her life, allowing her to discover and remember both public and private events―a Yom Kippur dinner, fascism and antifascism, the early years of the young Italian republic, the politics and culture of the Italian left, the openness of the 1960s and ’70s, and the retreat into privacy of the 1980s.

Keeping House: A Novel in Recipes (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

Biographies & Memoirs

CLARA SERENI

Community & Culture

State University of New York Press

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Keeping House: A Novel in Recipes (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)

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